Garment



M. MICHEL Aug. 13, 1935.

GARMENT Filed July 26, 1934 10 I 7720 7115 '77Zz'cfgel iii C; temptsihave-Ibeen made to overcometheabove difiiculty but so far; none of .thesehave been en- Patented Aug. 13, 1935 5 OFF-ICE. (j;

,lThisinvention relates to a garment, and more;

particularly to a novel and improved means for finishing off the frontends thereof to prevent the, same from turning out when worn. e

I'hose' familiar withthis art know howdiflicult. itlis toconstruct a garment such, for example, as.

\ a ladyjs :coat or the. like,flso that the outerifree edgesthereof will hangifreely and will not turn out. particularly at the bottom portion thereof when'vthegarment isnbeing worn. Several attirelysuccessful} f. l .It is, therefore, the "main object of" thiswinvention. to: construct agarment ofrthe character yde-j scribedi-and to. so. finish off? the. free outer edges thereof as to. entirely eliminate the possibility of said outer. edges turning or folding out, .said object beingiaccomplished by securingthe infolded edgeportionof the garmentto ralongitudinaljedge of ,,a taping striD,the= opposed longitudinal edge of; said taping strip being secured to thebody of the garment, the latter edge of said strip'being;

securedfinwardlyjoflthe first mentioned edge.

Another object of this invention is to provide a finished edge for a garment which consists in folding the body of the material upon itself to produce an infolded edge portion and securing said infolded edge portion to the body portion by means of a taping strip, one longitudinal edge of which strip is secured to the under face of said infolded edge portion and the opposed longitudinal edge is escured' to the body portion, the securing means for said taping stripmay be spaced from each other and arranged so as to permit the said infolded edge portionto move inwardly, but to prevent thesamefrom moving outwardly.

A further object of thisinvention isto provide novel and improved means for finishing off the free edge of a garment which will be simple in construction, which may be done economically and conveniently, and which will be highly eflicient for carrying out the purposes for which it is designed. With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the

"invention consists in certain novel features of portion, size'and minor details of the structure may be made without departing from the spirit or several figuresof the drawing:

sacificing .any, of theadvantages of the inven-- tion. j [Q For the purpose of facilitating an understanding of my invention,- I have illustrated in the accompanying drawing" a preferred embodiment thereof, from an inspection of which when con-, sideredin connection with the following description, my invention, its modeof construction assembly andoperatiomand many of its advantages should be readily understood and appreciated.

Referring-to the drawing in which the same characters of reference are employed toindicate corresponding or similar parts throughout the .Figure lis-a view in perspective of a womans garment constructedzin accordance with the principlesr of this invention; i

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a fragmentary portion of the inside of the garment constructed in accord- 1 r Fig. a view in perspective of a fragmentary ance with myinvention;

portion of the garment, portions thereof being. v opened up for the :purposepf illustrating the same r ul y ap 4,. r

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing more specifically by characters of reference, the numeral l0 designates the body of a garment, the free edge ll of which is folded back upon itself to form an infolded edge portion I2. A row of stitching l3 may be provided immediately adjacent the free folded edge I 2 to give to the same a finished appearance. In order to prevent the portion H! from folding outwardly when the garment is being worn, I have provided the following novel means for securing the. portion l2 to the body portion In.

In the embodiment illustrated, said means consists of a taping strip M which is disposed between the portion l2 and body portion l0, said taping strip being of substantial width, which, in practice, may be approximately from an inch to an inch and a half, and has one longitudinal edge thereof secured by a. row of stitching 15 to the under face of the infolded edge portion l2. The opposed longitudinal edge of said strip I4 is se-. cured by means of a row of stitching [6 to the inner face of the body portion l0, said row of stitching l6 being disposed inwardly of said first mentioned row of stitching l5, as shown more clearly in Fig. 4 of the drawing. By reason of this arrangement, it will be readily apparent that the infolded edge portionl2 will readily give or move to the right as viewed in Fig. 4, but will be prevented by means of the taping strip Hi from moving or giving to the left, as viewed in said Fig. 4.

In actual practice, the taping strip I4 will extend to a point I! which is spaced from the bottom edge 98 of the garment, as shown in Fig. 2, and that portion of the infolded edge I2 which is disposed between the point I! and bottom edge 48 is fastened to the body of the garment by means of a small thread chain l9, one end of which is secured to the infolded edge portion l2, as shown at 26, and the other edge of which is secured to the body portion of the garment as shown at 2i.

From the above it should be readily apparent that when a garment is constructed in the man-- ner hereinbefore described, the front edge thereof will be prevented at all times from turning or folding outwardly by reason of the fact that theinfolded edge portion l2 will be held against movement in an outwardly direction by means of the taping strip [4. This strip, however, will permit said infolded edge portion 12 to move inwardly a distance equal substantially to the width of the strip l4 between the two rows' of stitches i5 and l6. 7

I believe that my invention, its mode of construction and assembly, and many of its advantages should be readily understood'from the foregoing without further description, and it should also be manifest that while a preferred embodiment of the invention has been shown and described for illustrative purposes, the structural details are nevertheless capable of wide variation'within the purview of my invention as defined in the appended claims.

' What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. 'In a garment of the character described, means for finishing off the free longitudinal edges thereof, said means including an 'infolded edge portion, a row of stitching provided immediately adjacent the folded edge, said stitching extending to a point spaced fromthelower edge of the garment whereby said lowermost edge of said infolded portion will remain unsecured to the body of the garment, and a taping strip disposed between said infolded edge portion and body portion, said taping strip having one longitudinal edge thereof secured by a row of stitching to the infolded edge portion only, and the opposed longi tudinal edge thereof secured by a row of stitching to the body portion only, said strip being of considerable width with the rows of stitching provided therethrough being spaced from each other with the first mentioned row being disposed inwardly of said second mentioned row, whereby said infolded edge portion may move inwardly relative to said body portion but will be held (against movement outwardly relative to said body portion by said taping strip.

2. In a garment of the character described, means for finishing off the free longitudinal edges thereof, said means including an infolded edge portion, a row of stitching provided immediately adjacent the folded edge,.said stitching extending to a point spaced from the lower edge of the garment whereby said lowermost edge of said infolded portion will remain unsecured to the body of the garment, and a taping strip disposed be tween said infolded edge portion and body portion, said taping strip having one longitudinal edge thereof secured by a rowof stitching to the infolded edge portion only, and the opposed longitudinal edge thereof secured by a row of stitching to the body portion only, said strip being of considerable width with the rows'of stitching provided therethrough being spaced from each other with the first mentioned row being disposed inwardly of said second mentioned row, whereby said infolded edge portion may move inwardly relative tosaid body portion but will be held against movement outwardly relative to said body portion by said taping strip, and'a flexible connection between the lowermost unsecured corner of the infolded edge portion and the body.

' IVICJRRIS NIICHEL. 

